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pop-eyed

pop-eyed is the alternative spelling of popeyed.

Meaning of popeyed

Adjective

popeyed (comparative more popeyed, superlative most popeyed)

  1. having bulging eyes
    • From behind large and sinister-looking frames her popeyed gaze—it could be from hyperthyroidism—swept over us.1994, Kenzaburō Ōe, The Pinch Runner Memorandum, translated by Michiko N. Wilson and Michael K. Wilson, Sharpe, Chapter 4, p. 88
  2. (broadly) astonished
    • Files of women passed balancing vegetable baskets on their heads, and pop-eyed children who stared at the Europeans.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 11”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC

Questions about pop-eyed

What is pop-eyed the alternative spelling of?
Pop-eyed is the alternative spelling of popeyed.

Words near pop-eyed in the dictionary

  1. pop wood
  2. pop'n
  3. pop-corn
  4. pop-cultural
  5. pop-eye
  6. pop-eyed
  7. pop-eyes
  8. pop-in
  9. pop-out
  10. pop-out cake
  11. pop-out cakes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pop-eyed (page history and authors); popeyed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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